Each year the OAS Secretary General publishes a proposed Program-Budget for the coming calendar year. The OAS General Assembly meets in a Special Session to approve the Program-Budget. Find these documents from 1998-2013 here.
Each year in April, the OAS Board of External Auditors publishes a report covering the previous calendar year’s financial results. Reports covering 1996-2016 may be found here.
Approximately six weeks after the end of each semester, the OAS publishes a Semiannual Management and Performance Report, which since 2013 includes reporting on programmatic results. The full texts may be found here.
Here you will find data on the Human Resources of the OAS, including its organizational structure, each organizational unit’s staffing, vacant posts, and performance contracts.
The OAS executes a variety of projects funded by donors. Evaluation reports are commissioned by donors. Reports of these evaluations may be found here.
The Inspector General provides the Secretary General with reports on the audits, investigations, and inspections conducted. These reports are made available to the Permanent Council. More information may be found here.
The OAS has discussed for several years the real estate issue, the funding required for maintenance and repairs, as well as the deferred maintenance of its historic buildings. The General Secretariat has provided a series of options for funding it. The most recent document, reflecting the current status of the Strategy, is CP/CAAP-3211/13 rev. 4.
Here you will find information related to the GS/OAS Procurement Operations, including a list of procurement notices for formal bids, links to the performance contract and travel control measure reports, the applicable procurement rules and regulations, and the training and qualifications of its staff.
The OAS Treasurer certifies the financial statements of all funds managed or administered by the GS/OAS. Here you will find the latest general purpose financial reports for the main OAS funds, as well as OAS Quarterly Financial Reports (QFRs).
Every year the GS/OAS publishes the annual operating plans for all areas of the Organization, used to aid in the formulation of the annual budget and as a way to provide follow-up on institutional mandates.
Here you will find information related to the OAS Strategic Plan 2016-2020, including its design, preparation and approval.
MEXICO’S FOREIGN SECRETARY PRESENTS HIS VISION FOR OAS FUTURE
January 12, 2005
Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Luis Ernesto Derbez Bautista, today addressed the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) and presented his platform as a candidate to lead the OAS General Secretariat.
“The OAS agenda should respond to the concerns and needs of all member states. That implies overcoming the current situation in which it is perceived that the OAS has not been able to fully incorporate the aspirations of the less developed countries of Central and South America and the concerns of the Caribbean island states,” he said.
Poverty, inequality and unemployment “constitute serious threats to democratic stability in various states of the hemisphere,” said Derbez, who called for a renewed focus on economic, social, educational, cultural and technological issues.
“Within the framework of the OAS, an important political agenda has been developed and this clearly must be strengthened,” he said. “However, the time has come to carry out with greater conviction an Agenda for Development with a broad, integral perspective that allows for a necessary balance between the political agenda and the development agenda.”
During the special session of the Permanent Council, chaired by Ambassador Manuel María Cáceres of Paraguay and with Acting Secretary General Luigi R. Einaudi present, Derbez assured the member states that he would continue to give priority to democracy and human rights. He referred to the Inter-American Democratic Charter, saying that “its validity and strength are derived from its application in crisis situations.”
“If I am elected Secretary General, I am committed to taking to the Permanent Council all those situations which could endanger the free exercise of democracy in our region,” he said.
In presenting his extensive plan for the Organization, Derbez also talked about the need to find greater resources for the OAS and to strengthen the ties between the OAS and the Summits of the Americas. Following his formal presentation, he answered questions posed by several ambassadors, stressing that the OAS must be a relevant body that can face the hemisphere’s most important challenges.
For the Organization to work at its peak capacity, “it is necessary that the election of the Secretary General take place as soon as possible,” Derbez said.
The next Secretary General will be elected by the 34 member states at a date yet to be determined. The two official candidates to date are Derbez and Chile’s Interior Minister, José Miguel Insulza.